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[Imaginary] Benford's Law

Where: DesignLab: Room Inform

Tuesday 8 November 2022 from 12:45 until 13:30

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There is a funny thing with numbers in real life, such as river lengths and city populations: almost one third of the numbers has leading digit 1!  How can that be? I will explore one possible explanation of this phenomenon, based on "Nexit" which is the (hypothetical) problem of the Netherlands leaving the euro. This leads to Benford's Law. This law is used to detect anomalies in company data because fake data typically does not satisfy Benford's Law.